Hello Guys I would like to know what your first trad bow was mine was a bear 76 40@28.
I shot so many arrows out of her.

Cody

Mine was an Wing Archery Falcon 45#@28".  I shot that bow for several years.

A Bear Red Bear a long, long, time ago.

Ben Pearson Model 403 Fiberglass Take Down Longbow. 45#@28

My first was a 45# old green fiberglass bow with a white handle. Not sure of the make but that was many moons ago!
My first real wood tradbow was a 58# LaClair Hunter longbow.  

My first hunting bow was a Ben Pearson 55lb recurve! I had several toy and homemade bows before the Pearson

Bingham T/D 45@28. Had three sets of limbs for it 45,50,55.

Little Bear, can't remember the details.

My first bow of any kind (except for a little green fiberglass job I had when I was a kid) was a hickory selfbow I made in a class put on by the Primitive Bowhunters of Illinois. It was 66" NTN, and drew 64# @ 28. I only hunted with it for a year, but still have it.

my first trad experience was with a Martin Mamba 65@28 that Richard Mcmullin of haughton la had. I shot that bow til dark. lol  I bought a Martin Hunter recurve shortly thereafter. got it at 55@28 and stacked like a booger at 27" but I drew 28. lol

Martin Hunter 1985

Bear Super Kodiak for a week (overbowed) then a Martin Dreamcatcher for a year or 2.

A wooden bow from Sears in 1955 than a Sears fiberglass bow a couple of years later.

Marriah Chinook longbow.  66" 49#@28"

60" McCullough "Griffin" 53#@28

Tomhawk Diamond 64inch 60 @ 28 inches.
but before that just what ever the Troop leader had on hand.

An old Yew selfbow,that my Grandad gave me.He made it himself.

ben pearson couger 45#@28 got it in 1977

A Darton recurve, 42 @ 28" in 1972


John

An old Bear that my Grandmother bought me in 1969 used it for shooting turles in the pond as a boy. Funny thing,, after all these years and many bows in between I am back to using a Fred Bear Takedown.